Current concepts in minimal access surgery for children

Pediatrics

Volumn 111, Issue 6 I, 2003, Pages 1239-1252

  Zitsman, Jeffrey L ^a  

^a Internal Medicine New York Presbyterian   (United States)

Author keywords

Laparoscopy; Minimal access surgery; Minimally invasive surgery; Thoracoscopy

Indexed keywords

APPENDICITIS; CHILD; CHILD HOSPITALIZATION; CHOLECYSTECTOMY; CRYPTORCHISM; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; ELECTRONICS; ESOPHAGUS ACHALASIA; FETUS SURGERY; GASTROSTOMY; HEALTH CARE COST; HUMAN; INCISION; INGUINAL HERNIA; INTESTINE SURGERY; LAPAROSCOPY; MINIMALLY INVASIVE SURGERY; PEDIATRIC SURGERY; POSTOPERATIVE ANALGESIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYLORUS STENOSIS; REVIEW; SPLENECTOMY; THORACOSCOPY; VARICOCELE; VIDEORECORDING; ECONOMICS; EDUCATION; INSTRUMENTATION; LAPAROSCOPE; THORACOSCOPE;

CHILD; CHOLECYSTECTOMY, LAPAROSCOPIC; HUMANS; LAPAROSCOPES; LAPAROSCOPY; SPLENECTOMY; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, MINIMALLY INVASIVE; THORACOSCOPES; THORACOSCOPY;

EID: 0038654425     PISSN: 00314005     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1542/peds.111.6.1239     Document Type: Review

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